Shepherd
Software Engineer, Full Stack
$170K–$400K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
About the job
Build and maintain core backend infrastructure for Shepherd’s underwriting, pricing, and policy workflows.
What you'll do
- Build backend systems for pricing models, underwriting workflows, and policy lifecycle infrastructure.
- Translate actuarial and underwriting logic into maintainable services; improve rating and decision systems’ performance and reliability.
- Collaborate with domain experts and contribute to architecture and code quality.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong backend experience in TypeScript, Python, or similar.
- Experience designing APIs and working with data-heavy systems.
- Comfort operating in ambiguous, high-responsibility environments.
Pay
$170K – $400K (base salary)
Tools
TypeScript, Python, React, Next.js, GraphQL, Apollo, Node.js, Postgres
AI focus
The posting describes the company’s broader work designing AI agents for underwriting, but does not specify AI work as part of this role.
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